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COVID-19 Exacerbating Inequality, Marginalization Faced by Indigenous Peoples, Speakers Underline, as Permanent Forum Continues Session States must ensure the protection of indigenous peoples affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through timely, inclusive and equitable access to quality and affordable health-care services, including vaccines, speakers told the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today as the body continued its 2021 session. For Inuit, the pandemic has revealed that there is now an...

United Nations forum on Indigenous issues begins For two weeks, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will be held in a hybrid format due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the United Nations Headquarters in New York Author: Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Anne Nuorgam. (Photo courtesy of @UN4Indigenous Twitter) For two weeks, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will be held in a hybrid format due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the United Nations Headquarters in New York After th...

The current 12-year National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children expires next year.  Human rights lawyer and womens safety advocate, Dr Hannah McGlade told NITV News the announcement is a critical first step, saying Indigenous women, girls and children are facing unacceptable violence.  "Aboriginal mothers in my state in Western Australia are statistically 17 and a half times more likely than non-Aboriginal mothers to be murdered," Dr McGlade told NITV news.  "Its absolu...

Abstract Welfare conditionality, whereby eligibility for income support payments is linked to prescribed forms of behaviour or values, is intended to encourage responsible behaviour in marginalised populations. However in practice, it may have consequences that worsen rather than improve their life chances. One of the most invasive forms of conditional welfare is income management (IM), involving the quarantining of up to 90 per cent of income that cannot be spent on excluded items in order to ...

Secretary Haaland leads U.S. delegation to United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Indianz.Com Haaland, who is the first Native person to lead the Department of the Interior, will deliver a keynote to the forum next week. She is expected to address economic, climate, and racial injustice issues facing American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. “To tackle these challenges in the U.S., the Interior Department has committed to using an all-of-agency ...

Establishing an Indigenous voice to parliament is favoured by 62 per cent of Australians according to a regularly conducted survey led by CQUniversity. Founded in 2008, The Australian Constitutional Values Survey, measured public attitudes towards establishing an Indigenous Voice to parliament in 2021. Lead researcher, CQUniversitys Dr Jacob Deem, said the survey results indicated substantial support for a First Nations Voice to parliament, with only 12.4 per cent against the idea. He said ...

New report details indigenous struggle for land rights March 13, 2021 The Wayúu people are indigenous to Colombia. — courtesy WHO/PAHO/Karen González Abril NEW YORK— Although the world’s indigenous peoples live in areas that contain around 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity, many still struggle to maintain their legal rights to lands, territories and resources, according to a new UN report published on Friday. The latest edition of ...

Surat: The Adivasi Ekta Parishad, which fights for tribals’ rights said it would take tribal leader Mohan Delkar’s suicide issue to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council (UN), seeking justice for the dead leader. UNPFII was set up to give justice to indigenous people from around the world. “AEP has sent relevant documents and videos about Delkar’s suicide case to Phoolman Chaudhary (Nepal), one o...

Eyes on the future: An open letter to President Biden on Indigenous Peoples This is an open letter to President Joe Biden from a group of Indigenous Peoples and advocates. The letter calls for a series of actions from the Biden Administration in support Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the U.S. and abroad. “Internationally, the United States must become a champion for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and, in our foreign policy and foreign assistance, engage Indigenous Peoples as partners — throu...

Advertisement The campaign to change the date of Australia Day from January 26 is supported by fewer than a third of Australians although half believe the contentious date will be shifted within 10 years. An Ipsos poll for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald and Nine News found only 28 per cent of 1222 people surveyed nationally were in favour of shifting the date, while 48 per cent were opposed and a further quarter neither agreed or disagreed. A woman at a 2019 Invasion Day march in Melbourne carr...